A fleeting empire [electronic resource] : early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada / Andrew D. Nicholls.

By: Nicholls, Andrew D, 1965-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010Description: xxix, 246 p. : ill., maps, portsISBN: 9780773580787 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- British | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1649Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 971.01/14 LOC classification: E101 | .N35 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The Huron Mission and the promise of New France -- Early English and British expeditions in the North Atlantic Theatre -- King James VI/I and the challenge of Anglo-Scottish co-operation -- The poet courtier : Sir William Alexander and his charter -- The paper Colony : Charles's privateers and the proxy war -- The demands of honour and Charles I's unfolding strategy -- A man of controversy : James Stewart of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree -- Mixed motives and the company of merchant adventurers to Canada -- Shifting loyalties and the case of the embezzled furs -- Lord Ochiltree's Gamble and the abandonment of Port Royal -- The treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the end of a partnership.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.

The Huron Mission and the promise of New France -- Early English and British expeditions in the North Atlantic Theatre -- King James VI/I and the challenge of Anglo-Scottish co-operation -- The poet courtier : Sir William Alexander and his charter -- The paper Colony : Charles's privateers and the proxy war -- The demands of honour and Charles I's unfolding strategy -- A man of controversy : James Stewart of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree -- Mixed motives and the company of merchant adventurers to Canada -- Shifting loyalties and the case of the embezzled furs -- Lord Ochiltree's Gamble and the abandonment of Port Royal -- The treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the end of a partnership.

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